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In a statement, Lambeth Council said: "This is the news we were hoping we would not hear. The Hillmead school community, which is a very tightly knit community, will be devastated. The teachers themselves are grief stricken. Everyone is feeling for Bunmi's family today."

Mr Blower, who was speaking on behalf of Hillmead Primary School, said: "The most important thing for the teachers had been to deliver the children home, so once this was done they seemed to visibly breakdown. They were absolutely distraught. Parents have been told about the support services available to them and the teachers will be offered counselling."

The discovery of Bunmi's body came as the search entered its third day. The youngster, who was on her first school trip abroad, was reported missing shortly after 4pm on Monday as her school group prepared to leave the lake at Cany-Barville. A full scale search was launched at 5pm.

More than 100 Gendarmerie officers with sniffer dogs have spent the past two days searching countryside and woodland surrounding the lake, a popular tourist attraction where only yesterday dozens of families were playing at the spot where the body was found.